Regarding RMT and their new use of Friend Requests

[Kio]

Some games have various privacy settings, so that you can disable messages sent to you (/tell) and various invitations. Or only allow such things from those on your friends list, and within your guild. It would be nice if these were options available to us.

[Amnesia]

I've also gotten a few of the RMT friend requests and I don't understand what they hope to accomplish.

Basically, when they send a tell to a player, there are two possibilities: Either the player is interested in their services or not.
For players NOT interested in their services, all they are doing is making it slightly more annoying to blacklist them---we'll definitely still do it. But making their messages more annoying seems counterproductive---the more annoying they are, the more we will complain to SE and they will try to do more to throttle them.

And for players who ARE interested, it seems like an even worse idea. Again, just because you might want to buy gold doesn't mean that you want that bot on your friendslist. So interested players have to go through the hassle of declining the friendlist invitation as well. Now they're also annoying their potential customers.

I don't see the point.

[Volcano]

I've also gotten a few of the RMT friend requests and I don't understand what they hope to accomplish.

Basically, when they send a tell to a player, there are two possibilities: Either the player is interested in their services or not.
For players NOT interested in their services, all they are doing is making it slightly more annoying to blacklist them---we'll definitely still do it. But making their messages more annoying seems counterproductive---the more annoying they are, the more we will complain to SE and they will try to do more to throttle them.

And for players who ARE interested, it seems like an even worse idea. Again, just because you might want to buy gold doesn't mean that you want that bot on your friendslist. So interested players have to go through the hassle of declining the friendlist invitation as well. Now they're also annoying their potential customers.

I don't see the point.

I have stated this before but RMT do not care, their goal is to spam their advertisements as much as possible before they are banned, even if someone is stupid enough to buy gill, they will still spam you, i don't get it either why annoying your customers helps but they are working on a timer, they just need to spam as much as possible untill the weeks later they are banned.

The FL crap is just to make you work a little to blist them, because they know people will QUICKLY blist them, so this is there way of a middle finger.

[Bixby]

I don't see the point.

The point is to break through any blacklisting and forcibly plaster their URL into your memory. If you blacklist them, the friend request lets them keep sending you tells.

They're not fishing for someone who wants to buy gil today. They're getting their name/URL plastered into as many heads as they can so it'll be remembered. Just like radio commercials that repeat a phone number or URL over and over and over and barely mention the service they're selling. You're not going to rush home and call that number, but hear it enough and it gets stuck in your head, so if you do happen to find yourself needing/wanting the service, you think of them.

It doesn't matter if they annoy Bob today as long as Bob remembers them six months from now when he's gotten frustrated enough to want to buy gil.

[Amnesia]

The point is to break through any blacklisting and forcibly plaster their URL into your memory. If you blacklist them, the friend request lets them keep sending you tells.

No, you can't blacklist them until you deal with the friend request. And I don't know about you, but I never pay attention to the msg, once I determine that it's a gilspammer. I honestly could not tell you even one RMT website.

[Bixby]

No, you can't blacklist them until you deal with the friend request. And I don't know about you, but I never pay attention to the msg, once I determine that it's a gilspammer. I honestly could not tell you even one RMT website.

Ah, all right. Wasn't clear on the specifics because this isn't happening on Gilgamesh. At least not that I've seen.

And yeah, it doesn't work on me, either. But just like every other piece of spam in existence, it doesn't matter how many people it doesn't work on as long as it does work on enough to keep it profitable.

[Livilda]

[Renen]

Cant SE just make ascript that auto-bans anyone who sends out more than 20 friemd requests an hour?
Because really, if you are sending more than that, you are definitely a bot.

[Luvbunny]

These RMT spam message seems to be only happening in North America servers, the crowded ones like Exodus. It happens a bit less in Adamantoise and Ragnarok. And it just "never" really happen in Japan servers. I have one character in Tonberry which is one of the busiest server and not once I ever get a spam from RMT ever. I also have one in Belias which is one of the smaller server, and again, not once do I ever get any spam. Odd, NA players must looooove their gilsellers since they seems to be a worthy target costumer for these RMT service.

[Symbiant]

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/busy for the win. I rarely come out of these days. It's either rmt sales, friend requests or someone thinking its funny to interrupt my teleport with a trade. They should have an option that only lets people send you tells / trade if they are on your friends list. If it's an option it's up to the users discretion to use it or not.